Pin-ticket-marking device.



No. 739,408. PATENTED SEPTpZZ, 1903. A WI M PIN TICKET MARKING DEVICE.

APPLICATION EILED NOV. 21. 1902.

N0 MODEL.

WITNESSES IWVENTOR {xi /f 50% @M.

mtornex- UNITED STATES Patented September 22, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED W. A. FINOH, OF DETRQIT, MIOHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO ROBERT FULTON AND BELL MAY FINCH, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.-

PlN-TlCKET-MA'RKING DEVICE."

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 739,408, dated September 22, 1903.

Application filed November 21, 19Q2. Serial No. 13 2,216. (No model.)

T at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED W. A. FINCH, a

citizen of the United States, residing at De- Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pin-Ticket-Marking" Devices, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to appliances to be used for holding pin-tickets while they are being marked by pencil, pen, or the like with the cost and selling price or with any other designations, and has for its object toprovide a means of securing said pin -tickets or like objects in a relatively flat position and so that they will be sufficiently station'- ary to facilitate marking with a pen or pencil and will not be disturbed by the operator in the process of marking.

My invention consists in features ofconstruction and combination of parts hereinafter more particularly described and claimed.

In the annexed drawings, constituting a part of this specification, Figure 1 .is a perspective view of my invention. Fig. 2 is a lateral sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a cross-section. Fig. 4: shows a modified form of my invention. Y

Similar letters refer to like parts throughmade of such Width as to accommodate in each line one dozen pin-tickets of the most common or standard size. This board is made of any convenient length and is provided on its upper surface with narrow parallel grooves 13 of sufficient depth to receive the pin or wire-staple part of the pin ticket or tags E. On the two lateral edges of the board are the slots 0, in which the flanges H of the hand-rest'D move. This restD is made of relatively thin sheet metal and consists of the top surface, the ends G, bent at approximate right angles to the top surface, and the inwardly-projecting flanges H. The ends G are of sufficient height so that the top surface D can pass freely over the top surface of the board after it has been covered with pin-tickets. The grooves B, if desired, may be'somewhat widened where they terminate at the edges of the-board to facilitate inserting at the ends of said grooves the ticket pins or staples, or said pins or staples maybe insertedin the board from the top part of the grooves. Y

A modification of my invention is shown in Fig. 4, wherein, as'shown, the board A upon its top surface is provided with inclined surfaces running parallel across the board. Near the top line of these inclined surfaces are the grooves B, similar to the grooves shown in Fig. 1, made at right-angles to the inclined' surfaces. As shown in this figure, the lateral edges of the board instead of being provided with the slots 0 may be rabbeted, thereby providing the shoulders G to hold the flanges H. If desired, the hand-rest D may be dispensed with and the boards, either plain, as shown in Fig. 1, or with the inclined surfaces, (represented in.Fig. 4,) used alone.

In the operation of myinvention the boards are filled with pin tickets or tags, preferably one dozen in each row, as the articles upon ,which: these tags are principally used are marked in dozen lots and are-uniform in price may be marked Without the use of the handrest D, in which form Idesire to cover my invention as Well as in connection with the hand-rest.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a pin-ticket-marking device, the combination of a base of wood or similar material, of parallel grooves thereacross, of slots in the lateral edges of said base, and a handrest movable in said slots, substantially as described.

2. In a pin-ticket-marking device, the combination of a rectangular board having a series of grooves in the top surface thereof, a hand-rest of sheet metal or equivalent substance, lying in a plane parallel to the top surface of the board and having its ends bent at right angles to the top surface of said rest and then inwardly in the plane of said top surface, rabbeted shoulders on the lateral edge of the board to retain the inwardly-projecting flanges of the hand-rest, substantially as and for the purpose described.

3. In a device of the class described, thecombination of a base portion, the top surface of which is provided with a series of grooves for receiving the staple or pin part of marking-tags, of a hand-rest movable over the top surface and the tags arranged thereon, substantially as described.

4. In a pin-ticket-marking device, the combination of a board of Wood or equivalent substance, of narrow grooves in the surface of said board, and the said grooves widened at their extremities where they terminate at the edges of the board, substantially as and for the purpose described.

5. In a pin-ticket-markiug device, the combination of a board, the top surface of which is provided With a series of inclined surfaces parallel to each other and running across said board, of grooves in said surfaces, of a hand-rest movable over the top of said board and the tickets, arranged thereon, substantially as described. 7

6. In a pin-ticket-marking device, the combination of a base portion of wood or equivalent material, the top surface of said base provided with inclined portions extending parallel to each other and across said base, of grooves extending into said inclined surfaces, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two. subscribing Witnesses.

ALFRED W. A. FINCII.

\Vitnesses:

CHARLES W. HAWKINS, ANDREVV L. ARTHUR. 

